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POETRY

Saturday Morning

Amy Jasek
Feb 11, 2023

Reflections on parenting

Parenting a teen:

lots of sitting in the car

and lots of driving

This haiku written at 7:30am on Saturday morning while sitting in my truck waiting for the sun to come up so I can go photograph, having arrived at the place at 7am to drop the teen at an event. Funny how we go from caretakers to chauffeurs in the blink of an eye…

(Ps the medium app on my iPhone isn’t particularly user friendly for formatting! Apologies for the journalism tag; it was a mistake and I can’t figure out how to remove it)

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